Palestinian envoy: new Israeli settlements are a provocation after UN vote on ...
UNITED NATIONS - The Palestinian U.N. envoy accused Israel on Friday of carrying out "an immediate provocation" following the U.N.www.washingtonpost.com
Making the case for Palestine
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Nowhere are the grievances that perpetuate violence and war more evident than they are in Palestine today.www.japantimes.co.jp
VIEW : Israel-Palestine conflict: Hamas upgraded to a partner of peace ...
The eight days of bombings and drone strikes on Gaza and the rocket attacks to Israel ended with a ceasefire brokered by the mediation of the Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi.www.dailytimes.com.pk
Hatch seeks cutoff of UN funding over Palestine stance
Orrin Hatch wants to cut all U.S. funding to the United Nations in retaliation for its recognition of Palestine as a nonvoting state, but the White House has no plans to strike back at Palestine or the U.N.. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told ...www.sltrib.com
Brazil Hosts 'Free Palestine' World Social Forum
Over the past decade, Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, has achieved global resonance as the site of the first World Social Forum in 2001.www.huffingtonpost.com
Is Palestine now a state?
UNITED NATIONS The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday, by an impressive margin, to upgrade Palestine from its status as an "Observer Entity" to an "Observer State," a change greeted by celebration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and with ...www.cbsnews.com
Palestinian Vote at UN: Game Change Or Same Old, Same Old?
UNITED NATIONS -- Palestine had no problem getting an upgraded status at the United Nations, isolating Israel and the United States and giving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas the boost in stature he so badly needed. Baffling is why the United ...www.huffingtonpost.com
The UN and Palestine
CLIMATE CHANGE AND CULTURAL EXTINCTION - Vijay Prashad reports on the vanishing of Kiribati and other Pacific Islands, as the seas rise and communities, cultures and languages disappear; PAKISTAN AND THE US: CAUGHT IN A BAD ROMANCE: ...www.counterpunch.org
Palestine: The audacity to hope
The vote grants Palestine a 'non-member observer state' status, which is an upgrade from its former 'non-member observer entity' role.blogs.tribune.com.pk
Palestinian-Israeli clash at UN highlights mutual blindness and common despair
He rebutted Palestinian inaccuracies, corrected some glaring distortions, highlighted the far too many historical omissions and showcased the factual inconsistencies in President Mahmoud Abbas' presentation of the resolution to recognize Palestine as a ...www.haaretz.com
Palestinian vote at UN brings recognition, but is a far cry from practical ...
UNITED NATIONS The United Nations has voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians still face enormous limitations: They don't control their borders, airspace or trade, they have separate and competing governments in Gaza ...www.cbsnews.com
Israel to expand settlements after UN vote on Palestine
These moves are in retaliation for the United Nations General Assembly vote late Thursday night recognizing the Palestine Liberation Organization as a nonmember state.www.wsws.org
Palestine gets a 'birth certificate'
So what is Palestine, then? Most of the UN thinks it's a state, not just an entity, though not quite stately enough to join the UN.www.guardian.co.uk
Palestine seizes statehood
Just nine votes against was proof that the Palestinian Authority (PA) had headed off a concerted Israeli-American diplomatic effort to rob them of a so-called moral majority endorsement of the UN's implicit recognition of a sovereign state of Palestine.www.smh.com.au
UN vote on Palestine status inflicts new divides in Europe, NATO
Thursday's overwhelming U.N. vote to elevate the status of Palestine at the world body inflicts yet another fracture in the facade of Western solidarity, exposing a divide among European Union and NATO member states over U.S.www.latimes.com
Palestine's Man in the Middle
Last night, a few hours after the United Nations General Assembly voted to give Palestine nonmember observer status in the international body—a move that the Times described as an "upgrade"—the Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, flew coach ...www.newyorker.com
Palestine Gets "Symbolic" Upgrade at the UN
The upgrade of Palestine from an "entity" to a "non-member state" at the United Nations received a lukewarm reaction from netizens - who asked what a 'symbolic' gesture like recognising Palestine at the United Nations would do to Palestinians ...globalvoicesonline.org
Palestine wins de facto statehood in UN General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a vote Thursday recognizing Palestine as a non-member observer state on the 65th anniversary of the U.N.mideast.foreignpolicy.com
Palestinian vote: refugees expect long wait for independence
The contrast could not have been greater with central Ramallah, where a cacophony of car horns and fireworks filled the air early on Friday as mostly young and middle-class street revellers in the occupied West Bank's political capital celebrated the ...www.telegraph.co.uk
Palestinian UN vote will hurt peace, says Israel's Regev
Israel says a vote upgrading the Palestinian status at the United Nations is "negative political theatre" that will "hurt peace".www.bbc.co.uk
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